They’re pretty safe. Youtube is full of crash test videos. Basically the passenger compartment is a reinforced steel pod. So the car might be easily totaled, but the people inside are pretty well protected.

There’s something creepy to me about the way these incidents are being reported on and rubbernecked, like “not good, but actually kind of funny!” Causing thousands of dollars of damage and ruining a stranger’s week isn’t cute; it really sucks and I wish no such stress on my fellow man.